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9/13/2011 2:13PM

Taliban Assaults Rock Kabul

Insurgents staged a series of attacks across Kabul on Tuesday, with rocket-propelled grenades, gunfire and suicide bombers targeting the U.S. Embassy. Maria Abi-Habib has the latest from Kabul on Lunch Break.

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the ... all ... why breaking news today out of Afghanistan where insurgents have staged a series of attacks ... aimed at the US embassy one RightNow's Maria of the hobby Steve Lott unthinkable thanks Maria for being here ... thinking ... so give us a flavour of what is actually happened on the ground today for people who have not been on this this morning ... cheer wrote about one thirty PM of ... four hundred and eight and half hours ahead of you ... I ... need to break and ... were able to cheat sheet can go out and and and ... the twelve storey building was under construction ... I'm quite close ... to the UN that mean ... NetEase been any very shy view ... of the neighborhood which I could do to complete the mission that the British and that ... he didn't and that he can ... also agreed to put that on ... the new headquarters ... and I think they're trying to keep t think ... that I mean I ... think that machine guns ... and to a still ongoing and eight to know about ... the hours later ... meanwhile across ... town they're unable to the Hackney area close to Parliament ... because the four litre to getting the headquarters of the very much the feeling of intense heat from him impeached ... I ... and what kind of casualties Maria have we seen so far ... well I ... don't baby unclear and I ... think we should put nation monkey as a guarantee that you ... do not think the problem at the time reporting ... what we think at this ... point ... is that there are three children who had been killed ... IPD ... can ... come and pick any ... old cars carrying children ... and I think that that that that tend to think you're wounded four week ... average for all ... and that ... two or three in thirteen of the troubled by the numbers are likely you are keen to go out ... and Rick is there any thought that this attack is time to alter their anniversary of the September eleven two thousand one terrorist attacks in the US I was happy to just have this weekend ... I may even conclude that he hired Healy confirmed on alert for September eleven the bid for a day after ... it had a run and dropped their battle the renewed financial year Q ... do you get in the air clean ... and air temperatures deduplication profit taking ... um but you know I mean ... worn Warren Koppelman I'm even to walk the walk ... there could be an ... attack on the Intercontinental Hotel ... I am which was dramatic and get that across the world the population which very much when ... he ... in that war over ... time and you know the hope that ... that that that part of a dramatic ... escalation of violence across the ... country ... the the the thirteenth ability to create ... what we ... want that for about a year in two years ago will come back into their intention to cobble ... OK ... I very we will continue coming to you out of here